WASHINGTON , June 9, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA Television will provide live coverage of the launch and docking of a Russian cargo spacecraft delivering almost three tons of food, fuel and supplies to the International Space Station beginning at 5 a.m.

Xenon - a colourless, odourless gas which makes up less than one billionth of the volume of Earth's atmosphere - might hold the key to answer a long-standing question about comets: did they contribute to the delivery of material to our planet when the Solar System was taking shape, some 4.6 billion years ago?

President Donald Trump’s proposal for an 11.3% cut in spending at the National Science Foundation may be dead on arrival in Congress. But that doesn’t mean congressional appropriators will be able to avoid any squeeze on NSF’s budget.

Beyond Limits, an artificial intelligence and cognitive computing company, has announced it has secured USD 20 million in Series B funding from BP Ventures, the corporate investment arm of global energy business, BP.

Boosted by natural magnifying lenses in space, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured unique close-up views of the universe's brightest infrared galaxies, which are as much as 10,000 times more luminous than our Milky Way.

SpaceX has realigned the launch date for the Bulgariasat-1 mission, which due to a two day launch delay with CRS-11 is now targeting launch No Earlier Than Saturday, 17 June - continuing the company’s cadence of one launch every two weeks.

A new set of commemorative embroidered patches celebrates the 50 year anniversaries of the Apollo moon missions by reimagining the art of the originals. Credit: A-B Emblem/Tim Gagnon/Jorges Cartes via collectSPACE.com.

This image of Saturn's north polar vortex and hexagon, the planet's rings and its moon Mimas (tiny dot floating above the rings) was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on March 27, 2017. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute.

Observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope indicate that the upper atmosphere of the hot Jupiter exoplanet HAT-P-38b is free of clouds or hazes, whereas most of the atmosphere of WASP-67b — a similar planet in many ways — is masked by high-altitude clouds.

A new study led by Northern Illinois University geography professor Wei Luo calculates the amount of water needed to carve the ancient network of valleys on Mars and concludes the Red Planet's surface was once much more watery than previously thought.

A partially 3D-printed motor created by an engineering team at Carleton University in Ottawa. The team is trying to make self-replicating 3D printers from materials that can be found on the moon. Credit: Alex Ellery.